Does Your Heart Grow at Christmas?

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Does Your Heart Grow at Christmas?

We just watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  I’ve never seen it all the way through in one setting before.  The short version – I was/am impressed and inspired.  So inspired that I wrote a poem based on one line from that movie - Where Are You Christmas?.

But for now, in this space I want to talk about the ‘growing heart’ thing that happened in the story.  As the story goes, every year the Grinch’s heart grew smaller and colder.  At one point in the movie he brags about how much smaller his heart will be sooner than soon. 

And, in the end, his heart grew three sizes.  Christmas has a way of doing that to us, when we allow it.  It’s the joy and happiness of the season.  And the incredible message of hope that abounds.

Seems this year, people in my small town are putting up more lights, brighter displays and more plentiful decorations than ever before.  There is an optimism and spirit of “The Christmas Happies” that is catching on, and I’m loving every minute of it.

I think my own heart grows a size or two larger every year.  I seek out new insights, new thoughts, new freshness and new eyes with which to see the season.  I want to go into Christmas with eyes wide open, and a heart like a sponge so that I may soak up as much as possible of this great time of year.

So, right now, my heart has already enlarged.  And it’s growing moment by moment.

I’m growing it larger to make room for more love, more joy and more ‘Good tidings of great joy’.

Merry Christmas.

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